Fantastic Beasts 3 Trailer Suggests WB Has Lost Faith In The Franchise
As exciting it is to see Dumbledore and Grindelwald duel in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, that fight could also mean that the Harry Potter prequel franchise won't run as long as WB had imagined. The newest trailer for Fantastic Beasts 3 has brought a new look to the film that will open on April 15th and teased some thrilling moments. David Yates returns to the director's chair in what will be his seventh film in the Wizarding World franchise.
Fantastic Beasts 3 will have the difficult task of continuing the series after Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’s underwhelming box office run. Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law return as Newt and Dumbledore, while Mads Mikkelsen will replace Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. Fantastic Beasts 3 promises to continue Newman's story, while also developing more of the turbulent relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
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The fact that Fantastic Beasts 3 will already jump into the fight between Dumbledore and Grindelwald suggests that the initial five-film plan may have been abandoned. According to what is known from the lore of the saga, there was only one duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, which took place in 1945. The idea that the Fantastic Beasts franchise would span five films would make audiences imagine that the great encounter between the two pillars of the story would be saved for later, perhaps the fourth or fifth film. Given the problems that the Fantastic Beasts films have faced both behind the camera and at the box office, it's not at all far-fetched to imagine the franchise could end sooner than expected. Having Dumbledore and Grindelwald fight each other earlier in the
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